Artificial eye mount



July 26,1949. K, R LARSON 2,477,460

ARTIFICIAL EYE MOUNT Filed June 22, 1945 Patented July 26, l1949 ARTIFICIAL EYE MOUNT Karl R. Larson, Minneapolis, Minn., assigner to The Paul BunyanBait Company, Minneapolis,

' Minn., a corporation of Minnesota Application June 22, 1945, Serial No. 601,027

(Cl. I6-165) 1 Claim. 1

My present invention relates t-o improvements in articial eye mount intended for general use on inanimate objects, but especially well adapted for use in attaching artificial eyes to hollow plastic fish baits.

It is well known that it is now the general practice to attach an articial eye to inanimate objects by securing the same to a peg and inserting the same in a hole in said object. An artificial eye cannot be secured in this manner to a hollow plastic body due to the thinness of its shell.

The object of this invention is to provide an extremely simple and highly eicient mount having an artiiicial eye attached thereto` and in securing the mount to an inanimate object.

To the above end, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig, 1 is an elevation of an artificial fish bait simulating a small sh having the invention embodied therein;

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the invention and a fragment of the iish bait to which it i-s attached;

Figs. 3 and 4 are views partly in elevation and partly in section taken on the line 3 4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a View corresponding to Fig. 2, but showing a slight modification thereof;

Figs. 6 and 7 are views partly in elevation and partly in section taken on the line t-l of Fig. 5;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary elevational View showing a further modification of the invention; and

Fig. 9 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section taken on the line -9 of Fig. 8.

Referring now in detail to the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclu-sive, the numeral 8 indicates a hollow plastic artificial bait simulating a small fish. A spoon 9 and two triple hooks I0 are attached to fish bait 8.

A pair of the improved artificial eye mounts II. only one of which is shown, is secured to the sh bait as will hereinafter appear. The mount II, shown, is a moulded plastic body in the form of a disk, the upper outer annular edge portion of which is rounded, as indicated at I2. This body II has a concentric annular bottom portion I3 of a much smaller diameter.

An artificial eye I lI, in the form of a ball, is mounted in a socket I in the upper side of the mount II at the axis thereof. The artiiicial eye I4 is attached to a peg IB which extends through a hole I7 in the body bottom portion I3 and its free end portion is upset as indicated at I8.

The body bottom portion I 3 of the mount II i-s fitted in a hole IS in the shell of the sh bait 8 with the body Il resting 4on said bait. In addition to the peg I6, the artificial eye I4 may be further secured to the mount I I by cementing said eye in the socket I5 and the peg I5 in the hole Il.

Referring now in detail to the modification of the invention shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, wherein parts that correspond to like parts in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, are given the same reference numerals followed by a prime. The only difference between the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inelusive, and that shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, is in the form of the artiiicial eye, which, in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, is a rhinestone.

From the above description, it is evident that the improved m-ount II makes it possible to use a peg in attaching an articial eye to the thin shell of an inaminate object.

Referring again to the invention shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the rhinestone I4 is mounted in a socket I5 with its greatest diameter below the top of the mount Il and held in place by friction.

The drawing illustrates commercial forms of the invention, but it will be understood that the same is capable of certain modifications as to details of construction and arrangement within the scope of the invention herein described.

In the modication shown in Figs. 8 and 9, the numeral 20 indicates a fragment of an artificial bait similar to the artificial bait 3. The mount 2| is a moulded plastic in the form of a disk that snugly ts in an aperture in the bait 20 with its outer face flush with the exterior of the bait 20. An artificial eye 22 resting on the mount 2| is attached thereto by a stem 23, one end portion of which is anchored to said eye. This stem 23 extends through a hole in the mount 2l and its inner end portion is upset to hold said stem against removal from the mount 2|. The diameter of the eye 22 is materially larger than the diameter of the mount 2I, overlaps the bait 2u and is cemented thereto.

What I claim is:

An artiiical eye mount comprising an annular body member, the under side of which is flat and having an integral cylindrical bottom member spaced inwardly from the perimeter of the body member, the under side of the bottom member being substantially parallel to the under side of the body member, the sides of the bott-om member being substantially perpendicular to the under side of the body member, said body member having in its top an axial socket, the top of the body member being curved upwardly and inwardly from the bottom of the body membei1 to the socket, an articial eye in said socket and fitting its contour, said mount having an ain'al hole extending from the bottom of the socket through the bottom memben and a de- X pending stem on the eye extending throughsaid hole with a tight t and having its outer end upset to hold the eye in the socket.

KARL R. LARSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 795,109 Dover July 18, 1905 1,073,111 Fraenkell Sept. 16, 1913 1,195,841 Mowry Aug. 22, 1916 31,569,563 Muller Jan. 12, 1926 1,832,743 Shuldiner Nov. 17, 1931 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 13,795 Great Britain June 9, 1911 l133,067 Great Britain Mar. 18, 1935 

